Show CHINA SEEMS r ON EVE OF r DISSOLUTION r Sectional Jealousies Je Are Threat Threatening ning Disruption of That Country PERIN PEKIN Aug Ang 31 31 Not Not only between betwee China Chin proper and her her dependencies but also a among on the Chinese provinces them them- selves B conditions which threaten diBin become more mor and more serious as the tha leaders of the republican m move move- ve- ve fail to reorganize the tho government government govern govern- ment ent and delay deJay in establishing re-establishing 1 central central cen cent authority The chaotic condition of ot China is at present such Buch as aa would cantle e cause widespread wi danger danger da g international intern as well wen as Domestic if the count country were wore not co 80 favorably isolated from the rest of the world and if the people were not of an exceedingly peaceful f l tempera tempera- ment mente Their conflicts are are primarily struggles with money and not with wit arms In the late revolution re there wore were n no battles in which more moro than a few thou thour thousand sand men were engaged and the fighting fighting fight fight- in ing was was generally generall of a feeble character r. r Bartering usually took the tho place of fighting t and some sonio of the surrenders of ot imperialist commanders were th the result of monetary payments while their loyalty loy loyalty alty aUy mi might ht have been retained had the tho been able or willing to provide a greater cater number of silv silver r Lack Moral Courage The same means today it is generally generally gener gener- ener- ener ally aUy believed beHaved would wo ld save save China Chinn front her officials who with very few v exceptions are men who at one ono time or another another an an- other also hold o office i e under too the Man Man- chus Among these officials those who are honest suffer from the tho racial failing fail fan ing lack ing lack of moral cO courage courage and and e-and and fear to accept the six nations' nations loan lo n with the tho re requirement of foreign control and tho the others arc are working s up tho national opposition because the they desire no no supervisor su su- supervisor over their system of l ti squeezes s q Meantime Japanese consuls in southern southern southern south south- ern ern Manchuria and arid Russian consuls in northern Manchuria and in tho the vast territories ter- ter t ter territories r- r beyond the the Gobi n impose their authority authority's os they win will and the tho Chinese officials in in those border countries can obtain but poor advice and little support t from OIl the cabinet nb In Iii Pekin whoso attention is l concentrated on maintaining its precarious political position I In to whose whose sacred sacred city eity the British have shown shown- their thair ability to penetrate penetrate pen pen- penetrate with a few hundred men men many of ot the tho Chinese garrisons have hav been defeated defeated defeated de de- and driven out ou even from Lhasa itself though the soldiers erg of the Lamas are little more than an an ill in armed rabble The deep rooted Tooted prejudice a against the foreigner and the fear ear of him seems seems to tobe tobe tobe be the greatest factor continuing to hold together to ether the tho provinces of China proper which are re jealous of one another and and ana unfriendly The national government being afraid to contract a foreign loan and afraid to impose taxes or even en in some i provinces to coll collect ct those instituted by the is un un- unable able ablo to purchase authority beyond the th walls o or of the capital Such order a. a exists is maintained loean locally and is due chiefly to the peacefulness of the tho peo peo- pIe But there is apparently no or organized party arty with secession or a counter revolution revo revo- lution in mind nor noi there any foreign pressure on the nation ex except in the tho so called dependencies ov over over r which the Chinese have held but nominal nomma control for many years Conditions in these dependencies affect only a few idealists and not the great uncomprehending Chinese Chi Cha- C nese nesem masses |